Wiki Updates

[Kevin T. Neely]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:49:43PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
> --- "Kevin T. Neely" <ktneely at astroturfgarden.com>
> wrote:
> 
> What Ken and Adam are suggesting I think is a solution

<snip>

> I don't think that you are doing the same thing that I
> was suggesting, I think that maybe you have it
> reversed?  Instead of having a home directory that
> points to various other trees, you want multiple home
> directories that point to the external trees (which
> can actually be in the same repository).

That is correct.  What I want is to basically have a single version of any given file or directory, but have different subsets of all my data depending upon which computer I am using (e.g. which repo I check out)


> You need to create several versions of your home
> directory:
> 
>  svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home/work
> 
>  svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home/laptop

I believe I have figured out how to do everything except for all the dotfiles in $HOME

My current setup is:

	/usr/local/svn/ktneely
		    ../work
		    ../finances
		    ../src

for directories with actual data in them, and then

	/usr/local/svn/full
		    ../light
		    ../guest

for repositories that I will actually checkout.  Then, I had planned on using externals such that when I checkout "full", it would pull in all of the repos; when I checkout "guest", it would only pull in config files from $HOME (ktneely); and "light" might pull in ktneely and the most active directories with commonly-edited documents but not the src as I would not need those.

What I don't want to do is maintain different .- and other config-files for the different computers.  

I have figured out how to do all of this, but my knowledge of subversion is too limited to figure out how to grab the $HOME files and place it into ~/ 

Is that a better explanation of what I am attempting to achieve?  I think I did a poor job of explaining it the first go-round.  The advantage is that in the explaining, I get a better idea of what I am doing and how to get it done (even if I'm doing it all wrong!) 

thanks,
K


> and then check the appropriate one out to the
> appropriate home directory.  
> 
> 
> So if you are at the office you would not check out 
> svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home, but you would
> check out  svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home/work to
> $HOME.  Now in this directory the subdirectories would
> all (or mostly all) be externals such as mail,
> music...
> 
> So, if the repo dir work has externals like this:
> 
> 
>  mail  svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/mail
>  music svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/music
> 
> when you check out
> svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home/work like this:
> 
>  cd /home/kevin
> 
>  svn co svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home/work .
> 
> (Note: the '.' at the end is important, if you omit
> it, you will get a dir named /home/kevin/work)
> 
> You will now get:
> 
>   /home/kevin/music
>   /home/kevin/mail
> 
> If you then had lapop home dir setup with just your
> mail, in  svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home/laptop
> like this:
> 
>  Mail svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/mail
> 
> 
> You could check this out on your laptop
> 
>  cd /home/kevin
> 
>  svn co svn+ssh://server.com/svn/repos/home/laptop .
> 
> and get an uppercase Mail dir since maybe your mail
> client on the laptop wants it named 'Mail':
> 
>  /home/kevin/Mail
> 
> 
> Does that make a little more sense?
> 
> 
> -Martin
> 
> 
> 
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